Thomas R. Carper: “I would say there is a lesson here for both of us, and one of those is to make clear I am always ready to take your…”

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.